Year 8 · Geography · Population and cities · Lesson 2

Urbanisation and megacities

Urbanisation: why cities grow, push and pull factors, rural-urban migration, megacities, informal settlements and the challenges and opportunities of urban growth.

18-minute video lesson

Teaching, worked examples and 20 practice questions solved step by step.

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What your child will learn

Define urbanisation
Explain push and pull factors
Describe megacities
Explain challenges of rapid urban growth
Judge the impacts of urbanisation

The method

Push factors.
Pull factors.
Natural increase.
Effects.

Key words: urbanisation, rural, urban, push factor, pull factor, megacity, informal settlement.

Worked examples

The first three practice questions from the lesson, with every step.

Question 1

What does ‘urban’ mean?

Step 1: Towns and cities

Answer: Relating to towns and cities

Question 2

What does ‘rural’ mean?

Step 1: Countryside

Answer: Relating to the countryside

Question 3

Roughly what share of the world lives in urban areas today?

Step 1: More than half

Answer: Over half (about 57%)